ShittyBeatlesFCPres

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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 2 points 3 months ago

Everyone mad about wolves is probably also mad that they have a feral pig issue or has hit a deer with his truck, which causes a lot more damage than a squirrel.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 2 points 3 months ago

Or just the price of gas, the only price posted on billboards, and groceries, which we all buy. They’re also, unfortunately, amongst the most volatile (for seasonal, geopolitical, or whatever reason). But it’s the prices the average person tracks and the news reports the 3 stock big stock market indices with a one-sentence summary as if every stock moved up or down for the same reason.

I’m not judging here. Like, food, power, and retirement account (if they have one) should be what the average voter notices. It’s just unfortunate that it’s also basically fool’s gold for long term national policy makers. The weather can change the price of your favorite food more than the president.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Probably Janelle Monae - Archandroid. I love Afrofutrist funk like (Parliament-Funkadelic). It appeals to my 2 identities as a space nerd and the funkiest of the funky. Archandroid was sort of the peak of her sticking close to that genre. (Her three early works called the Metropolis Saga — Metropolis, an EP, Archandroid, and The Electric Lady — form a whole story.) The albums have multiple Suites like classical works so the themes change even within the albums. But Archandroid is my favorite part. And you can totally nerd out on it forever and still find new things.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 3 points 3 months ago

Another reason to legalize weed at the federal level. There’d be a lot more people in the application pool than the world’s most naïve Utahns if everyone weren’t required to be a complete square their whole lives.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 11 points 3 months ago

For Robert Kennedy, one assumes, since they had to learn the Earth is flat while rehearsing for the “mission.”

/s The earth is obviously a dodecahedron. Otherwise, water would reflect things like a funhouse mirror.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 8 points 3 months ago

There’s some bridges where you can follow Twitter or Mastodon/BlueSky accounts (or probably anyone) on your preferred service. You can’t interact, obviously, but if you’re just following reporters for news or whatever, you can get a read-only type feed.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 12 points 3 months ago

As there’s no responses, I’ll offer that my friends’ kids in dense parts of NYC, LA, SF, DC, etc. do all those activities. (Maybe the ones in LA don’t go sit by the LA “river.”) There’s usually loads of neighborhood parks and less formal places in cities where kids play (like playing soccer in an alley). And I know my friends in urban centers have their kids in just as many organized sports leagues as my friends who live in the suburbs. (It might actually be easier on the parents in the cities because my suburban friends are like youth sports taxi services every weekend whereas the ones in NYC have enough population density where the league is in the neighborhood.)

So, my impression (from the parents’ childless friend’s side) is that kids, like Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs, find a way. They’ll play hide and seek in a desert and try to hide behind tumbleweeds.

Again, sorry if I’m talking out of turn but this is Lemmy and there were no responses yet so I thought I’d toss in what I’ve seen as an adult. Gotta feed the content maw until the Fediverse grows up to be an uncontrollable beast.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

CNBC being rated as left-center is one of the funnier of these.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unspent campaign money is a whole thing but it usually gets transferred to a future campaign, other candidates, state/local/national party, or used to create a “Leadership PAC,” which is like a slush fund to donate to peers. A more honest example of a Leadership PAC might be someone with unusual star power (like AOC) raising a shitload of money in a safe seat and so using funds to donate to progressive candidates in tougher races. A shadier example might be the Speaker of the House using their fundraising ability to let people know that if they expect a donation, he or she expects their vote on a bill. And I’m sure you can imagine a thousand undeniably corrupt ways to use a Leadership PAC.

They could also refund donors or donate to a real charity if they’re done with politics or trying to stay in donors’ good graces for the next try. But that’s not what ambitious politicians (basically all of them) typically do.

But unless a candidate drops out or is in a safe seat, they really do try to spend every dollar that comes in almost as it comes in. There’s a very good likelihood a candidate ends up in the red at the end of the campaign and has to solicit donations even after the race is over to pay vendors, staff, etc.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For some reason, seeing a Prada logo on the side of a train car is the thing about the video that surprised me the most. I was like, “Oh, you can do backflips on a bike on a moving train? That’s neat. Wait, why the fuck is Prada involved?”

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 20 points 3 months ago

I don’t think it’s about abortion. I think they decided allowing a transgender teen to exist is “dismembering children” even if surgery for trans teens barely ever happens IRL. If they were actually worried about gender affirming surgery for minors, they’d want to ban nose jobs and fake tits too. So, it’s just part of the general trans moral panic amongst conservatives and “Won’t someone please think of the children?” bullshit that always accompanies moral panics even if children aren’t involved.

I’m cis but my understanding is that even trans adults find getting access to gender affirming healthcare is a huge, expensive ordeal. Philosophy Tube had a good video on her experience in the UK and I sincerely doubt it’s any easier in America’s labyrinthian, absurdly expensive non-system. It’s definitely not like parents are swinging by the urgent care to get their 13 year-olds free bottom surgery.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 7 points 3 months ago

For a long time — like probably into the 2000s — LSU’s Tiger Stadium had dorm rooms because when Huey Long couldn’t get funding approved for a football stadium, he got money for dorms approved and built one dorm in the shape of a football stadium.

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